Improvement in leg and foot rests



T. WEDDLE.

LEG AND FooT-RE-ST. N. 183,4'75. Patented oct. 17, 187e.

THOMAS wEDDLE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN LEG AND FOOT RESTS. l

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 183,475, dated October17, 1876; application filed August 25, 181e.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS WEDDLE, of the city of Brooklyn, in thecounty of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Leg and specification.

This invention relates to portable and folding foot and leg supportersfor use both by invalids and others either when occupying a sitting orreclining position, and in other attitudes, or under a variety ofcircumstances.

The invention consists in a sectionally-constructed foot-rest, havingits sections united by one or more hinges, in combination with aleg-rest, united by one or more hinges with one of the foot-boardsections near its meeting end with the other foot-board section.

The invention likewise consists in a certain combination, with thehinged leg-rest and hinged sectionally-constructed foot-board sections,of means for securing said parts when extended and when folded up orclosed.

Figure 1 of the drawing represents a view, in perspective, of a foot andleg rest constructed in accordance with my invention, and as in use by aperson sitting on a chair. Fig. 2 represents a side view of the samecombined foot and leg rest when not in use, but with its parts unfoldedor extended ready for use; Fig. 3, a section of the same in a planeparallel with Fig. 2 and, Fig. 4., a side or edge view of the articlewhen folded.

Referring to the several gures of the drawings, the foot-supportingboard is divided transversely of its length into approximately equalsections A A, which sections are hinged together at their meeting endsby one or more hinges, b, constructed to admit of said sections closingone upon the other from their under, back, or outer surfaces, and sothat when extended they support each other at their inner and meetingends. Hinged to the face of one of said foot-board sections A, near itsmeeting end with the other footboard section, by one or more hinges, c,is

the leg-rest or supporting-board B, made capable of closing down on thefoot-board section A, with which it is connected by the hinges c.

In this way, or by these means, they footboard sections and leg-boardmay be shut up into a flat package', as represented in Fig. 4, suitablefor stowing away in a trunk or elsewhere.

When these foot-board sections and legboard are opened or extended, andthe article Ais adjusted for use so that the hinge c is -uppermost, thenthe inner or lower end of the leg-board has a rm bearing on the face ofthe lower foot-board sections A, and the two foot-board sections bear attheir inner ends one against the other. Said parts may be thus looked orstayed by means of hook-stays el, pivoted to the edges of the leg-board,and hooking onto pins e on the side edges of the foot-board section A,to which the leg-board is not hinged. These hook-stays and pins alsoserve to hold the parts together when the article is reversed oradjusted for use with the v.

the foot-board sections A, near its meeting end, with the otherfoot-board section, essentially as shown and described.

2. The hooked stays d and locking-pins e, in combination with the hingedleg-rest B and hinged foot-board sections A A, substantially asspecified.

THOS. WEDDLE. Witnesses: f R. B. RHODES,

A. G. BUELL.

